While hedge funds may be used to holdings in cash management funds for investor redemptions, Basel II has given banks a greater incentive, to allow their use as collateral as well, Solomon Teague re...

MSS Capital's head of structuring in EMEA, Caelim Parkes examines the benefits and drawbacks of managed accounts, in answering why at least a portion of one's hedge fund assets should be managed in ...

Barclays Capital's Michael Brian explains hedge funds' nimbleness does put pressure on prime brokers to respond in kind but, as is the case with all rapidly changing industries, the cream does still...

In an increasingly complex marketplace of prime broking houses, it's the small differences between brokers that are likely to make or break the client relationship, says Credit Suisse managing direc...

While mark-to-market may be the prefered route to pricing, sometimes it just isn't possible. The Bank of New York's Tim Murphy and Markit's Richard Earl look long and hard at models as they apply to...

While institutional investors in France may be turning their attention to non-correlated returns, they know what they like (and don't like), and it pays for managers to find out first, as David Walk...

When it comes to managing hedge funds Chicago, with its wealth of exchanges and universities, is like nowhere else, say the city's major service providers. Phyllis Feinberg gets the lowdown on the c...

A quant at Citi has revived debate about the changing nature of the profession (www.risk.net/2417747). The scope is narrower, he claims; the job has been dumbed down, and today's quants are little more than programmers. Is he right?